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The Exciting Newspaper serving the GddenTriangle of Southwestern Oh THE JOURNAL-NEWS Hamilton, Ohio 45012 Phone 863-8200 TUCKER SUIHEHAND JIM etOUKIT DAVZ Page of Opinions WHITTAXM I Mgr. mm SIMISON I Cliiitfifd Adv. Mgr. I CARROU MEXANOW Clrculilion Mgr. WAITER CEORGS Composing Foreman Bill FOX Supennlendinl KM SMIW.

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1 Was Vi Again" ByJACKANDERSON WASHINGTON It happens every four years. A national election turns into a nationalfrcc-for-all. According to the old math of American politics, everything during an election is reduced i lowest i a Candidates a i ncd from these cables that high ranking Republican fund raisers were pressuring President Thieu in Soulh Vietnam to boycott the proposed peace talks until after the election. This prevented the Democrats from softening the war issue, which Nixon was using against them. Humphrey acknowledged to caricatures: issues become us that he had seen Ihecables, i minded rallying but said he had refused to use cries; the presidency is them against Nixon, streaked with mud.

A EMm a i this would But we might remind our have ouded lhe Vietnam readers (hat the candidates jssue anci divided (hc cfllmtrv are also capable of rising unnecessarily." he said, "'l above campaign pettiness. We was convinced that Richard have learned that America's f- i i aboul two veteran antagonists whatwasgoingoninSaigon." and Richard Nison on occasion Earlier, following the I960 have put integrity first and election. Richard Nixon was i i i a ambitions i evidence a seconr Democrats had stuffed the ballot boxes in three crucial states-- Illinois. Missouri and As Vice President during the 1968 campaign, Humphrey read the secret diplomatic cables from Saigon. He lear- Texas.

This gave John Kennedy 61 electoral votes, the margin he needed to win the presidency. i a uncovered irregularities. In i a a Democrats supposedly turned out in districts wiped out by new superhighways. In St. Louis, seven Republican ward Democratic overnight and voted heavily against Nixon In numerous small towns in Texas.

Democratic ballots outnumbered citizens two to one. Republican leaders were pressing for a court fight that would have dragged on for months and left the country's leadership in doubt for the duration. Ten days after the election. John Kennedy, the apparent winner, visited Nixon in Key Biscayne. Fla.

"Well, I guess we really don't know him this thing is going to be resolved," said Kennedy. "Yes we do," said Nixon. "You won." Meanwhile, Earl Maze. Ihe chief political reporter for the his way recently so that three New York Herald Tribune, icen a constituents could a a 12 part series visit their parents in the exposing Democratic election hospital. MeGovcrn found the shenanigans.

After the fourth youngsters late one Friday night stranded in the Minneapolis Airport after they had been bumped off the last connecting flight to I i story. Nixon called Mazo into Kis office. As Mazo remembers the ncident. "I told him that the election had been stolen out of his eyeballs. He laughed.

Then ne got serious. He said it was important that I stop my articles." Then Nixon confided why he had refused to contest the election. "Our country at this lime can't afford the agony of a constitutional crisis!" he said, "and Idamnwellwillnot be a party to creating one just to become President." Such incidents emphasize lhat politics is nut always an end in itself. Even the most ambitious men have served (heir country worthily. Footnote: Senator George McGovern gave up a night's rest and went 200 miles out of A scenario for Democrats one famous, but controversial, man could save the party Only ByARTBUCHWALD WASHINGTON Everyone has his own scenario for this week's Democratic National Convention.

The way things have been going with the parly, one scenario has as much validity as the next. This is the one that I have written and if it comes true, remember, you read it here. It is the fourth day the convention and Ihe Democrats have been unable to decide on a presidential candidate. The fight to seat delegations has taken up three days and those people who were ruled ineligible have refused to give up Ihcir seats to those who were officially designated as delegates to the convention. Almost every slate delegation has two people silting in every chair.

No one dares leave the floor for fear that someone will grab his seat. When someone tries to speak he is hooted down by the opposition faction. Larry O'Brien, the chairman of the party, has the podium ringed with the National Guard sonoonecan grab the microphone. The nomination speeches have not been heard, but the candidates have been nominated McGovern. Humphrey.

Wallace. Chisliolm. Jackson and Muskie. There have been no demonstrations for the candidates in the hall because everyone is afraid if he gets up and marches they won't let him back in his section again. On the first ballot McGovern picked up 1.23J voles, well shy of the 1.509 he needed.

The rest were split between lhe other candidates with the uncommitted refusing lo vote for anyone. The second and third ballot found no one budging. By the tenth ballot of Wednesday's all-night session, lhe convention was hopelessly deadlocked. The stale delegations caucused right on the floor, trying to get people lochange their minds. But it was impossible.

On NBC. John Chancellor and David Brinkley became short-tempered and refused to talk lo each other. Howard K. Smith and Harry Reasoner on ABC were also not speaking to each other, and on CBS. Walter Cronkite wasn't talking to himself.

It was obvious to everyone in and out of the conventionhall that a compromise candidate had to be found one who had not already been nominated. But who? The Democratic Party leaders call a recess behind the podium. They argue and thrash it out for several hours. They only man whose name is proposed as the compromise candidate is a very famous, but controversial, figure on the American scene. He has announced many times that he is not a candidate for the Presidency cirlhe Vice Presidency, and has said under no conditions would he accept a draft.

Yet. the leaders argue he is the one person who can save the parly. This young man. whose name had been associated with a very embarrassing incident, is a household word now. Because of the deadlock at the convention, he is the only one who can possibly beat Nixon in November.

The compromise candidate is not at theconvention. Hehas purposely stayed away so people would believe he was not interested in the nomination. O'Brien puts in a call lo him. Everyone, in turn, gets on the phone and tells him he has lo be the candidate. The compromise candidate speaks to George McGovern.

Humphrey. Muskie and Wallace. They urge him to run. The candidate finally agrees lo a draft and says he will take the next plane to Miami. And that's how Bobby Fischer, the U.

S. chess champion, became the Democratic presidential nominee for 1972. hometown of Wagner. S. D.

The youngsters told the senator that their parents had been in an a i accident. McGovern quickly offered to fly the threesome to a in his chartered a McGovern's destination was Aberdeen. 235 milestothe north. President Nixon continues to twist and pull at the knobs -of the great American war machine in Indochina. Irving to find the right combination to bring Ibis endless war to a halt.

His national security aide. Henry Kissinger, has alerted congressional leaders that may be a possible breakthrough in the peace negotiations. Kissinger has asked them privately to restrain their statements fora few days to avoid upsetting the delicate negotiations. The President, meanwhile, has pulled all the combat units out of Vietnam. At the same time, of course, he has quietly increased our air power in Indochina loan all-time high.

Somehow, the enemy has managed to replenish itself. Battered, bombed and now even mined, the enemy has always seemed able to find the necessary resources lo con- tinuethe conflict. Secret intelligence reports reveal that 7.000 new North i a recruits i move South next month for combat in Vietnam and Cambodia, it was only two years ago that Nixon launched a major invasion into Cambodia to drive the enemy out of their a a i Today, the enemy is back in Cambodia in full force, controlling more territory than ever before. Monday, July 10,1972 The Journal News is pnbliaed every i except Sunday, by The Joiraal- PiaUsaiif Coart SI. and Joanll HamilUm Otk tail.

Tucker Sitkerlaid is pgbtUker aid Jin Blaul is maaaliu ediloe. Tbe Jnnal Uarte Halts Newspapers, P. O. Saa Second class postage paid at Ha Okie, Regardless of the faction, the temporary majority must seek compromise Legitimacy question dogs Demo meet ByDAVIDS.BRODER The Washington Post WASHINGTON As their national convention, begins the Democrats are cussing each other, which is routine. and hauling each other into court, which is not.

and all on the grounds that one side or the other of the nomination struggle is using illegitimate tacticstogainilsend. The California challenge, the Illinois challenge and dozen lesser i a disputes are proving so litigious that the only people allowed inside convention hall may be the process-servers These disputes arc part and parcel of the nomination fight and of a great American political tradition. But winning them means more than getting a favorable court ruling or credentials committee majority. A victory is meaningful only if it carries the aura of legitimacy. We accept the constraints of because we believe our government lo be both a i and legitimate, thai is.

reflective of the citizenry and operating in accord with our sense of right and wrong. In this skeptical age all aspects of government are being questioned, but few so widely asthe process by which we choose our Presidential candidates. The reasons are obvious. A political convention lacks the decorum and majesty of the Supreme Court; it does not provide as direct a measure of the public will as an election; nor does it operate under the predictable rules and restraints of our legislative bodies. A nominating convention is an uproarious, contentious, quirky assemblage and.

i lhe omnipresent television cameras, it has also become a showpiece for political freaks. despite ils inherent shortcomings. Ihe American people still expect the convention to be something more a an exercise in pure political power. They expect and i a sense of legitimacy in Ihe process, and they will turn against any par- ly Inal docs not meet (hat test. The Democratic convention opening today represents, it seems a i a i a i of the most serious effort any parly has a open i i a i procedures to public participation and lo set forlh rules ot fair play for the elected delegates to use in picking the nominee.

But the current Democratic reformers, like all reformers before them, are finding they cannot dispose of the question of legitimacy by amending lhe rules. As Earl Deulsch has written. "legitimacy is not an absolute thingor quality, but a relalionship among values i i a situation. legitimacy may vary wilh lime and place views of legitimacy may lead lo conflict among groups or may intensify existing conflicts an American political a i legitimacy involves resolving conflicts between its temporary majorily faclion and its allied minority groups: brt- wcen its current political i a i a traditions: between the intern a a i of i i a i fight and lhe a restraints of the coming general election: between the rules of ils national body and lhe laws under which i a a a organizations operate. Tlie temporary majorily in the parly this year may want to i a manifesto for sw ccping social change, offensive lo many of its traditional i blocs.

Is it more legitimate for it (o spelt out ils program in the platform, or ta blur the hard edges of doctrinal difference? The current impulse of the delegates may be to boot Mayor Daley and-or Governor Wallace out on the street. But the realities of a campaign against Richard Nixon dictate a course of accommodation with bothmen. Which action is legitimate for the convention? Is it legitimate or not for a majority on the credentials i to determine, a i a national party's expression of sentiment against a unit rule overrides the winner-take-all primary law in California, bul not i I hree other st at es'' Are Ihe decisions of the 1372 convention, in which there arc i a a congressmen, necessarily a more legitimate measure of Ihe Democratic Parly's views lhan those of lhe 1968 convention, in which cleclcd officials outnumbered The whole complex question of legitimacy now overhangs lhe Democratic convention, and the beginning of political wisdom is lo recognize --with Deulsch that the question is complex. Those who insist on pushing simplistic solutions to Ihe breaking point do more than shove their party over the brink. They forfeit the confidence of the public in the whole convention process.

Conventions: Seems like we've seen it all before By THK OHIO IllSTOKICAI. SOCIETY of (he issues which face (he notional political conventions this summer were also lively centers of debate when three national political conventions met in Ohio 100 years ago. according to The Ohio Historical Society. Women's participation as delegates in Ihe conventions, Negro support for black candidates, value of the dollar, lariffs on imports, amnesty, unemployment, and consumerism were among the timely issues at the first nationnl conventions nf lhe Labor Reform. Prohibition, and Liberal Republican parties in 1872.

The lirsl two met separately in Columbus on Feb. 21-22 and the last in Cincinnati May 1-3. At only the Prohibition party meeting did women allend as delegates, serving on committees and addressing the convention, though it was not for tack of trying thai they failed lo secure similar slalus at the Liberal Republican conclave. There they argued that since Ihe call for delegates had been addressed to "voters." which included women who had voted in Wyoming. Icrritorics of Utah and Washington, and local elections, females should be received as delegates on equal Icrms with men.

Though initially their "pluck" was cheered, the petitioners were greeted with "a slorm of hisses and jeers such as few men could have faced" when the men realized that Die women were steadfast and persistent. The convention solved its dilemma by ruling thai the women lacked proper credentials and invited them lo observe from the gallery. Though the Liberals' platform recognized "lhe "equality of all before the law." lhe Prohibition and Labor Reform parties made their resolutions specific by including "sex" among the bases on which equal rights should not be abridged. When nominations were being offered. The Winchester Times recommended lhat a woman be pul on Die Prohibition ticket, and a black Labor delegate from Illinois reported "he didn't care who was nominated, he was going to support him if he was a Xcgro." Devaluation of lhe dollar a vital concern then as now inasmuch as the gold dollar was worth much more Hum the "greenback" issued without gold backing by banks and the government.

Return to the- gold standard and withdrawal of greenbacks were proposed by lhe Liberal Republicans while the- Labor Reform and Prohibition parlies recommended a uniform national paper currency convertible on demand lo silver and gold, taxation of government bends, and payment of vhc national debt out of current revenues as measures to stabilizer the country financial condition. Another burning economic issue was the a i The Liberal platform skirled the topic because lhe parly was sharply divided over a prolcc- lionisl or free trade policy and warned to avoid a public hassle On lhe other hand, the Later Reformers 8 hi to admil free such aruclcsas couldn't be produced here awl la lax imports which competed with development of American resources ar i mncnls which sound famitar today. War. peace, and amnesty uerc xohnile questions a century ago as they are today. Ohio Historical Society research reveals All threeVir tics meeting in Ohio in 1872 urged support a Rrncru1 anmes SD that all citizens could be restored lo a stalus -of equality of rightsanrt privileges" and wounds of divisive Civil War could he healed International arbitration and cooperation were recommended a ways to pin-use peace and the Labori.es demanded the i ary to civil authont.cs and confinement of military operations to National purposes." Though none of the candidates nominated by these three minor par- lies was successful in defeating President Grant in his re-election bid a century ago.

many of their platform proposals were equently into major party platforms and Ihe continue lo be lively issues today..